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brand-new details on the shooter, the fire power and the active investigation into the terrorist attack in orlando. this is "special report." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. federal investigators are uncovering details on the terrorist who perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in the united states at a gay bar in orlando, florida. 50 are dead, including the shooter. isis calls them a soldier. former co-workers hardly surprised calling him unhinged and unstable. now, new information about his
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arsenal and motivation. we have the latest from orlando. good evening, peter. >> reporter: good evening, brett. now we know how much fire power it took to stop the terrorist attack yesterday at the popular gay bar, pulse. the new recording lets us hear the final stand off between the s.w.a.t. team and the terrorist. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: a s.w.a.t. team used explosives to blow a hole in the nightclub wall and broke through with an armored vehicle and killed him. before he was shot dead, he called 911 three times saying on the third call he was loyal to the islamic state. >> cool and calm. when he was making the phone calls. >> reporter: a local store wouldn't sell him body armor recently. the 29-year-old terrorist bought two guns at a florida gun shop in the last week. >> i'm not trying to be rude.
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it's not the time to talk about it. it's upsetting to everybody in this country. >> he worked as a security guard. his father, an afghanistan political figure didn't know omar was plotting anything. >> if i didn't know that he was committing such a crime, my son -- >>reporter: his wife painted a different picture. >> after we were married, i saw his instability and he was bipolar and would get mad out of nowhere. >> reporter: the gay nightclub and patrons are scared. >> we don't know what is going to happen. >> reporter: orlando regional medical center wrote, we take care of a number of critically ill patients on a daily basis, but not to this extent.
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we usually see six gunshot wounds at a time. as they receive care, they are sharing stories of how they got out. >> he didn't realize he was shot until he got out of the one of the doors on the back and he jumped over a fence. when he got to the other side, that's when he realize zed he was, you know, shot in the stomach and he passed out. >> reporter: at this hour, there are 29 victims being treated at this hospital. five of them are in critical condition. overnight, authorities transported the last victim's body from the dance floor to the morgue. brett? >> peter live in orlando, thank you. president obama gathered his national security team at the white house for a briefing on the shooter's motives. the president says though the terrorism investigation is in preliminary stages, the act is an example of home grown extremism, in his words, but it's also what he's not say thag is causing concern for others.
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our correspondent has the latest from the white house. >> reporter: terrorism experts warned for years about the lone shooter. communications with international terrorist organizations. a murderer who draws no attention until they start shooting. the federal bureau of investigation launched several inquiries in 2013 and 2014. he had connections to al qaeda, hezbollah and the boston marathon bombers. >> we are going to look at our work to see if there is something we should have done differently. so far, the honest answer is, i don't think so. >> reporter: familiar things legal and descriptive. a hate crime for those for their sexual orientation. paul ryan says we are a nation at war for islamist terrorists phrasing the white house still refuses to use attacks like
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this. >> we are not, in any way, going to give an extremist terrorist organization the legitimacy they seek. there is a reason they like to refer to themselves as islamic state. they crave the notion they could be identified as religious leaders or holy warrior that is are engaged in a war in the name of islam against the west. they are wrong. >> reporter: instead, president obama is renewing calls to approve stricter gun control measures. >> how easy it is for them to obtain weapons is how easy it is to carry out attacks like this or not. we make it very easy for individuals who are troubled or disturbed or want to engage in violent acts. get very powerful weapons, very quickly. >> reporter: senate democrats
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prevent those on the terrorist watch list from buying explosives. a senior republican aide tells fox news the orlando shooter could have purchased weapons under the democrats bill because he was not on the terror watch list. to that, the white house wants congress to go further and ban assault weapons like the ar-15, the one used in the orlando atta attack. >> thank you. omar mateen was investigated by the fbi not once but twice. how did he slip through the cracks? kathryn has details tonight. good evening. how wha are they looking into? >> the fbi opened a full ten-month investigation into omar mateen after he told co-workers he had family ties to al qaeda, a member of a shiite terror organization and he hoped the feds would raid his home. the fbi used informants, did
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surveillance and made claims to flip out his co-workers because they singled him out for being muslim. they found it, at the time, plausible. mateen's name came up in a second fbi investigation, the first american suicide bomber. they went to the same florida mosque. asked who else was on the path to radicalization, mateen was watching the videos. reading the sermons and watching his z videos are among the most common red flags were home grown terrorism. brett? >> could they have done anything dichbtly? >> coming out of that q & a session, it seemed the bar was so high for the fbi to act. they needed evidence of a crime or his support for terrorism like telling an informant he was
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committed to a suicide attack. the fbi does not have the resources for 24-hour surv surveillance for everyone like mateen. they confirmed he traveled twice to saudi arabia and found no derogatory information about the trip. >> tuesday court appearance has been set for the man arrested in santa monica for assault rifles and other weapons. wayne reports from los angeles. >> i was watching the tv and what's happening in orlando and i was like so sad. suddenly, someone started banging on my window. >> reporter: when police answered the 911 call about a suspected prowler, they found a 21-year-old sitting in the car with a 5 gallon bucket of -- >> oh, my god, he could kill me.
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i asked the police, is he here to kill me? why does he want to kill me? what did i do? >> reporter: harm the gay pride event and nearly cancel the parade. hours later, santa monica police chief was forced to correct herself saying howell, a bisexual from indiana was held on charges, but she was wrong on the initial report of him wanting to do harm. >> at this point, there's no known credible threat here in the los angeles area and certainly no connection to anything that's happened in orlando. >> reporter: the gay pride parade went on with high security. >> we worked too hard to get out of the closet and we are not going back in. >> reporter: investigators try to figure out what his nen intentions were and the purpose of the explosive powder used in
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target practice. brett? >> thank you. the chairman of the house homeland security is here with me. mr. chairman, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me, brett. >> you have been briefed by the fbi and department of homeland security. what can you tell us? >> he's been under the radar several times. he traveled to saudi arabia on two occasions to do his pilgrimage in mecca. he was under investigation two times, one for inflammatory remarks about how his family is related to al qaeda. they opened the investigation, they closed it. secondly, i think more disturbingly is his potential relationship to the most deadly suicide bomber in syria who was in the same mosque in florida who left florida to go to syria for that operation. we have a lot of questions and we saw the director testify today. i'll be moderating a briefing tomorrow for all house members
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with a director of the fbi, secretary of homeland security and ho. >> what about the father? he's supported the afghan taliban. youtube video that is were anti-american. what about that connection? >> he claims that he has support for the taliban, for instance. so many flags in this case. the father, the son, i think he radicalized after the divorce from the wife to travel to saudi arabia. putting this together after the fact, i think we are going to get the answers to what happened. the fbi searched his home. they are looking at his computer records, his cell phone to see what connections he may have had overseas. i think he radicalized with the united states. he's american born and watching videos. that's exactly the same thing
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that the brothers in this fight did. compare or contrast this to san bernardino. is it similar? >> well, again, i think you see the flags, warning signs that were there, but not discovered prior to the attack. a little different. that involved the black widow from pakistan. he was born in the united states. boston bombing, chattanooga, san bernardino now the deadliest terror attack since 9/11. congress has an oversight responsibility. we are going to look into this to see what happened and what can we learn from it to prevent it in the future. >> take a look at president obama today and the fbi director talking about the case and the investigation. >> we see no clear evidence that he was directed externally.
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it does appear that at the last minute, he announced allegiance to isil. >> we are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack. we are also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might become needles. that is hard work. if we can find a way to do that better, we will. >> to the directors point, you have a lot of people who have some tie, some communication, they are following on twitter, isis. they have a connection. you have been on this show saying there are 50 states with cases open in all 50 states. is it a needle in a haystack? how does the intelligence apparatus deal with this? >> the director is right. we have 1,000 investigations in all 50 states. we get tens of thousands of leads and tips per year. it's almost impossible to have the resources and manpower to cover all this stuff. with respect to the president's comments, with all due respect,
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there's a down play called home grown violent extremism, not radical islamist extremism. >> he says he made the announcement and allegiance at the last minute is what the president said. >> of course. they never want this to be directed by a foreign terrorist organization. this man claims his allegiance to isis and isis, themselves, through their spokesman claim credit for the killings in orlando. >> so when this conversation turns to weapons and guns and the fact that he was under an fbi investigation twice, not once, but twice and purchased, legally, the before, what are we saying? >> the federal courts have ruled that these weapons are legally protected under the second amendment. they go to the supreme court. i would argue that before the purchase of the weapon, we need to get inside the mind of the terrorist.
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we need to counter violent extremism in this country. we spent so much money overseas, little prevention in this country to stop the radicalization. i think that's what we need to be focused on. >> department of homeland security has an advisory council, under secretary kay johnson, they have commissioned the report in which we are told the report instructs dhs not to use language that might be disrespectful to muslims, including, but not limited to jihad, shariah, dhs officials reject religiously charged terminology using plain meaning english. what about that? >> we see that throughout the administration. they try to remove the
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venacular. >> when they say that only fuels their fire, that only continues to build them up and not cut them down, you disagree? >> i disagree because of this. my dad was a world war ii veteran. we defeated nazis by calling out fascism calling it what it was z. we need to call this what it is and defeat it. if we can't, we will never win this. >> thanks for your time. up next, brit hume on the importance of words when it comes to combatting terrorism. after this.
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all sides condemn the horrific shooting as terror. the use of other descriptive terms differed among politicians and critics. political analyst brit hume joins us to discuss the difference words can make. >> the orlando mass murder was inspired by terrorist
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information or whatever that means. he was careful, as always, not to say islamic terrorism despite the announcement of the allegiance to isis. if there was an attack traced, it was this carried out at a nightclub frequented by gays. so strong is it that in numerous muslim countries, homosexuality is punishable by death. as for isis, they execute men for being gay, sometimes by throwing them off rooftops. a question raised is how inspired would omar mateen have been if it did not appear they were on the march and looking like a winner. how inspired would he have been if isis was visible on the way to annihilation. the one nation most capable of bringing it about was led by a man who went so far to tell his
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horrified fellow citizens they need to, quote, strength and courage to change in their attitudes toward gays. as for islam and their attitudes toward gays, he said not a word. brett? >> we are going to talk about the candidates talking about this. one element that was interesting that caught our eye, donald trump revoked the press credentials of a "washington post." trump says the post has not covered them fairly. they said today's headline, donald trump suggests president obama was involved in the orlando shooting is a perfect example and they feel no longer compelled to work with them. "washington post" said we are going to keep covering him and the back and forth continues. your thoughts? >> no doubt they will find a way to cover him and the coverage will be whatever it's been. something most politicians learn to live with. it's like the weather. not much you can do about the
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press. this makes news, however. on a day when hillary clinton was seeming to change her tune after he demanded she do so by saying she is willing to use the term islamic terrorism. trump reiterated today in a serious, thought out speech, his positions on terrorism. this is an issue that's probably in the near term will help him. the question arises, why would you step on it by getting into a public fight with a newspaper with tactics have never done any good. >> more with the panel. thank you. rough start to the week for the markets, dow lost 133 today. s&p 500 down 17 and naz z dak dropped 46. george passed away over the weekend at his home in cleveland. one of his closest political allies, george h.w. bush.
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cleveland mayor, jackson said he served the state and the city self-lessly and wasn't viewed as a republican or democrat, but a clevelander. he was 79 years old.
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most nominees took to the campaign trail and dealing with the national security in the wake of the shooting in orlando. donald talked about his temporary ban on muslim immigration and give tools needed to fight terrorism. we are in manchester with the latest. >> reporter: in the wake of the orlando attack, donald trump, in new hampshire, promised to destroy isis and launched criticism at president obama and hillary clinton. >> we are boarding radical islamic terrorism into the west to a failed immigration system
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and through an intelligence community held back by our president. hillary clinton wants to empty out the treasury to bring people into the country that include individuals who preach hate against our citizens. when i'm elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the united states, europe or our allies. >> reporter: trump renewed the call on a ban on muslims into the u.s. and said president obama disgraced himself, should resign and hillary clinton should drop out because they don't use the words radical terrorism. >> inflammatory anti-muslim rhettic and threatening to ban the families and friends of muslim-americans as well as millions of muslim business people and tourists from en
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entering our country hurts the vast majority of those who love freedom and hate terror. >> reporter: trump said he would save for clinton at a later time. >> she is in denial and reluctance to name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the entire world. >> reporter: trump said he had a plan to destroy isis but didn't want to disclose it. >> i have a way of defeating isis. it would be decisive, quick and very, very, it would be very beautiful. >> reporter: trump said americans can defend themselves. >> her plan is to disarm law-abiding americans, abolishing the second amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. no good. not gonna happen, folks. >> reporter: trump did not say how he intended to destroy isis
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and stumbled during a speech when he suggested the orlando gunman was born in afghanistan. that was not on a tell prompter and we know he was born in brooklyn. >> carl, thank you. on the democratic side, hillary clinton hit back against donald trump's favorite talking point. in doing so, she seemed to make a change. jennifer griffin analyzes the nominee. in the wake of the shooting, hillary clinton changed her message, pushing back against donald trump's attacks on the morning shows saying she and the president wouldn't say the word radical islam. >> i have said we face terrorist enlmys who justify slaughtering innocent people. to me, radical jihadism, radical islamism is the same thing. i'm happy to say either. >> reporter: that's not what she said before.
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swhak is the problem with radical islam? >> the problem is that sounds like we are declaring war against a religion. that, to me, is number one wrong. >> reporter: on a speech about the economy, she put america's middle eastern allies on notice. >> it is long past time for the saudis, the gutryes and the kuwaitys and others to stop citizens from funding extremist organizations. >> using as a backdrop team wendy, a cleveland manufacturerer that makes helmets for u.s. special operations and law enforcement, secretary clinton weighed into the politics of gun control and the desire to ban assault weapons. >> if the fbi is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you shouldn't be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked. >> reporter: she said she has a plan to defend the from the type of gunmen who struck in
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orlando. >> as president, i will make identifying and stopping lone wolves a top priority. >> reporter: clinton did not mention donald trump by name today here in ohio. she postponed two fund-raisers in ohio as well. she will meet bernie sanders in washington, d.c. tomorrow. sanders met with 20 top advisers in vermont last night and gave no indication he plans to step aside yet. brett? >> jennifer griffin traveling with the clinton campaign. thank you. up next, the latest on the terror investigation in florida. new details and new calls for more an
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he made 911 calls from the club during the attack at about 2:30 in the morning. three different calls.
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during calls said he was doing this for the leader of isil who he named and pledged loyalty to and declared solidarity with the bombers of boston marathon and a suicide bomber in syria, a group in conflict with the so-called islamic state. we are confident he was radicalized and, at least, in some part, through internet. >> the fbi director talking about the investigation into omar mateen, the 29-year-old terrorist at the center of all of this. in the past few minutes, peter talking to a survivor shot four times at the nightclub saying from his hiding place in the bathroom, he could hear the terrorist laughing, describing it as a laugh of satisfaction like i'm getting done what i came here to do. with that, let's bring in the pan panelist, steve haste, charles
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hurt, ron and charles krauthammer. steve, your thoughts on the whole thing, then what the fbi director talked about. >> the thing that got me was listening to the 14-minute statement the president delivered after the briefing. what he said today was better than what he said in the past because he acknowledged the obvious terrorist attack was a terrorist attack. that's damming. i think if you think about some of the other things the president said, they were contradictory. he said, for instance, we didn't know the motivation of the attackers. i think we don't yet know the motivation. he said this today, 36 hours after we learned that, at least eyewitnesses said he shot at the bar. he pledged loyalty to baghdad. he had long contact with
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jihadists in the past. >> he spoke of the tsarnaev brothers. >> in 2014, he claimed he wanted to be martyred. how in the world is there any question about what his motivations are? the president of the united states can say on national television as he allowed this person pledged loyalty to isis. the second point, real quickly, is that he also said in this same 14-minute statement, we think it was an attack, no associations with outside terrorists. again, how in the world would you know that after 36 hours? i wouldn't point to the fbi investigation. >> charles? >> the point where he said that there's no clear evidence this is part of a larger plot, hello. i mean all of these are part of a larger plot. then, for him to actually pivot
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and within such a short period of time turn into, you know, a way to advance the partisan political agenda about gun control. this doesn't have anything to do with that. this is a national security. >> it is powerful when they make the point that this guy had been investigated twice by the fbi and yet, still, didn't send red flags up, does it not? >> he got the gun. he wouldn't have gotten the guns if they had, perhaps, investigated further. it's like this argument about people on the no fly list making sure. it's a canard. they are bringing that up because, you know, the problem there is, they are not doing the investigations fully enough. if they did, they would be on a list and not able to get guns. >> to hear the fbi director is like a needle in the haystack and we have thousands of needles. >> we have a hard time figuring
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out when the straw turns into a needle. >> it is imprecise and imperfect thing the fbi has to do. they are not going to get all the bad guys. at some point, we have to realize it is harder. we try to oversimplify. what are the underlying issues? yes, one is islamic extremism. gun control is an underlying issue. what do we do to get the guns out of their hands? mental health is an issue. leaders are giving us false choices. on the president, you are right, he is tone deaf on this. we have to counter extremism. we know what he's talking about. on the other side, donald trump, whose first reaction to this was to give himself a pat on the back. then, he suggested the president of the united states is involved in the terrorism. no matter what you think of the president, you don't think he is involved in terrorism. >> specifically he said on a
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morning show, either he is completely unable to do his job or unqualified or there's something else. >> he said there's something going on here. what is he talking about? >> we are going to talk politics in a second. charles? >> i think there's one thing here that the president refuses to understand and i think it's because of the failure of his policy. the way to defeat and prevent these things is not gun control and it is not the fbi investigating. yes, to some extent that will mitigate it. in a country this size, so many people as potential target of investigation, unless you want to create a police state, there is no way you can prevent. there's one way to go after this. that is the osama bin laden theory. he knew about jihadism of the strong horse and the weak horse. i think brit hume had it right,
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ultimately, the only way to decrease recruitment is not with logic, not with argument, not with really clever programmers who know how to do twitter, it is by defeating the jihadist or showing them in retreat these movements only grow when they have a sense of inevidentibility and growth. one they are in retreat, people stop recruiting. you are not going to die in a suicide attack or movement that is not advancing. that means attacking isis where it is. >> here is the thought. mateen previously expressed loyalty to the taliban and afghanistan. he said interesting things. this is the brother on facebook. >> translator: the issue of homosexuality and punishment belongs to god, not a servant of allah. >> the longer part of the video,
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the interesting thing was even this far into this, there were people making this case that this was more about a hate crime against homosexuals and because this guy had expressed problems with that. the linkage between radical islam, they want to erase homosexuality and they throw people from buildings, homosexuals from buildings, radical islamists do. >> not only radical, look at certain states in the region, it is punishable by death, literally punishable by death. brit pointed that out. it's a huge double standard. you saw it in the e-mail hillary clinton's campaign set out where she said the lgbt issues she talked about need to ward of islamphobia but not the ideology that motivates that thing. >> we had a guy that was caught with a bunch of killing weapons
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that was heading towards l.a. there is a homophobia problem out there internationally and in the united states. there's nothing wrong with pointing that out. >> there's nothing wrong. you can't pick and choose what your issues are. read the letters from hillary clinton and from the president from organizing for america, they are picking and choosing the issues. they are choosing not to talk about it. >> next up, the politics of terrorism as we were talking about and the presidential campaign trail.
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enemy broadcasts weakness across the entire world. true weakness. >> and i have clearly said that we face terrorist enemies who use islam to justify slaughtering innocent people, and, you know, whether you call it radical jihadiism and radical slam, they mean the same thing, i'm happy to say
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either. >> we have the semantics around this radical islamic terrorism. here is what clinton said in december about this. >> what's the problem with radical islam. >> well, the problem is sounds e declaring war against a religion. and that, to me, is number one wrong. >> even though the qualifier radical is there. >> no, look, you know about religion, have you studied it. there are radicals people who believe all kinds of things in every religion in the world. >> she she reiterated that at a democratic debate this primary season. back and forth with the panel. >> the term radical islam, what has changed between the interview and today? no bernie sanders. the campaign is over. she doesn't have to appeal to her left, so all of a sudden she discovers the term which is the reason i really like completely cynical liberals who have no principles. they will occasionally get it right. where the principle liberal they will get it wrong every
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time. but with hillary, as soon as it is now convenient, she will continue to say radical islam which is a good thing. and one reason it's a good thing is what you guys were discussing about the attack on a gay bar. the fact is that unless you say what kind of extremism it is, you don't understand any connections. that's what makes obama's refusal so incomprehensible and unnerving. he knows there is a connection. when you say radical islam, you are encompassing all the elements of it, of which one is a radical opposition and hatred of guys. >> ron? >> i just want to know when you said cynical liberal, were you looking at me out the corner of your eye? >> i was looking right at the camera. i have tens of thousands of liberals who watch us every night. >> in a traditional year, there is no doubt that the party in power is hurt by an attack like this, especially when the party of power is the democratic party and especially when the leader of that party and the presumptive nominee both have records that can be
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attacked in a legitimate basis on foreign affairs. this is not a traditional year. so the question is whether or not donald trump is doing enough damage to himself and his brand and his credibility to offset the traditional advantage. you in your poll, in the fox news poll had two stats that sum this up. 76% say that trump will shake things up. people really want change, including with foreign affairs. 62% say they don't think he has the temperament to be president. that's the issue that's going to play out over this election. >> to that point, charlie, today, a lot of people looked at the substance of trump's speech, you know, minus the delivery and the thought about the delivery, the substance of it and was saying that it was hitting the right notes for people in the republican party broadly. but then this "the washington post" story about pulling the credentials it seemed to as brit hume pointed out kind of absorbed all of that. >> it's all about campaign impulse control and he has got to learn that.
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and he has got to reign it in. >> he has not going to have any problem on the right with this move. >> no. >> but in a general election. >> no, but the problem is that he doesn't have a problem with one side or the other. the problem is that he attempts to bury his own good news day, which is that -- and that speech that he gave today was very much aimed at republicans. you know, the idea being that, look, i do have the temperament to do. this and i think going forward, you know, we have an election right now between two people who bring out a lot of people who don't like them and are going to vote for the other person. but, and i think this is going to be true, i cannot think of a single world event that could happen between now and november that won't help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton. she is running as an incumbent and she is going to have to own all of these things. >> steve? >> yeah, i think to the extent that she has to defend the administration's record on, this and she does, that will certainly help donald trump. what i think he needs to avoid is the kind of things that we heard from him on "fox & friends" this morning where he made it all about
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donald trump. he announced it as if he were the one who discovered radical islam. well, we have been fighting a war. we have been fighting a war from 2001 to 2009 against radical islam when donald trump was funding the people who opposed that war. he doesn't discover radical islam. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned for some final thoughts. ♪ ...
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finally tonight, after horrific attack like the one that took place in the pulse nightclub in orlando, it's often, as it was today, the terrorist or the shooter who is the focus of media attention as motive and impact are explored. but it's the victims, those still injured in the hospital, the men and women who were killed and the families and friends they leave behind who cannot be forgotten. the victims this time range from 18 to 50 years old. one was a starbucks barista. another worked at the harry potter park at universal studios.
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there was a restaurant manager. a pharmacy technician, accountant. bouncer, and a bartender. the list, sadly, goes on with 42 others. thanks for the first responders, to the swat team that stormed that building allowing dozens huddled in a bathroom to escape and to the medical personnel on scene and in area hospitals who saved lives. glimpses of the good as well in florida as hundreds lined up to donate blood when a local donation center put out an urgent call. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. ♪ ♪ >> tit is tuesday june 149. the terrifying moment the gunman opened into the nightclub opening fire.
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snap chat video of a person moments before she was shot dead. >> authorities are now looking for evidence that omar mateen may have scouted out other locations for his rampage including disney world. >> another emotional day. good morning. i am abby hunts man. >> i am heather childers. thank you for joining us as always. we have brand new details emerging about what happened inside the nightclub, the shooter laughing as he took the lives of 49 innocent people. >> he never spoke from when i was there. he laughed when he was shooting like a laugh of satisfaction. i am getting done what i came here to do. it is imprinted in my head
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forever. >> we begin with leland vittert who is live for us in orlando. good morning. >> good morning. the investigation continues all night behind me. they are trying to sift through mountains of evidence. all of the victims have been identified. their next of kin notified. there are various reports that omar mateen had been at the club before. one report from the la times is the patriots recognized him from a gay dating app. make of whthat what you will, b this is an area he knew well. another area he knew well is disney world on his computer and cell phone. they found indications he had scouted disney world as a possible scene for the attack. why he choose the pulse nightclub is still unknown. very career from the of course bi's